Tawfiq al-Suwaidi

Tawfiq al-Suwaidi (1892-15 October 1968) was Prime Minister of Iraq from 28 April to 19 September 1929 (succeeding and preceding Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun), from 23 February to 1 June 1946 (succeeding Hamdi al-Pachachi and preceding Arshid al-Umari), and from 5 February to 15 September 1950 (succeeding Ali Jawdat al-Ayubi and preceding Nuri al-Said).

Biography
Tawfiq al-Suwaidi was born in Baghdad, Ottoman Empire in 1892 to a Sunni Muslim family, and he studied in Turkey and France before joining the Ministry of Education. He taught at a law college in Damascus, and he was called to form a cabinet under the Kingdom of Iraq in 1928 at the age of 36, the youngest premier in Iraqi history. In 1932, Iraq was granted membership in the League of Nations, and Suwaidi was chosen as the permanent representative to the league for his knowledge of foreign languages. He was also appointed Foreign Minister several times, and he was a member of the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq's faction of the Iraqi government by 1936. In 1958, he was arrested by the revolutionaries when the Kingdom of Iraq was overthrown, but he was pardoned in 1961, and he died in exile in Lebanon in 1968.